Liberal media corrected: Ludicrously sky high mass shooting statistics set straight

Since the Umpqua Community College (UCC) shooting on October 1, cohorts of liberal media outlets have begun a new offensive on the Second Amendment.  Among the bombastic rhetoric, incorrect statistics are being thrown around like bona fide ninja stars of truth, completely contradicting the actual numbers for the occurrences of mass shootings in America. The Washington Post led the leftist charge with their report that there had been one every calendar week since January 2013, while The Guardian galloped right behind with their assertion that 994 “mass shooting” incidents had occurred since early 2013.

When these references were actually fact-checked, it was no surprise that both outlets had employed the propaganda tactic of solely relying on information from a shooting aggregate site called Mass Shooting Tracker, which generated those incorrect numbers by craftily redefining the term mass shooting as any shooting incident where four people were wounded rather than the actual definition of four or more fatalities. This reclassification allowed every gang-related shooting to be included in the overall statistic, basically artificially and exponentially inflating the true number.

When you use the actual definition, and don’t deceptively conflate gang shooting statistics with the handful of school shootings by young adults and children on psych drugs, the numbers tell a completely different story. The study from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) showed a pattern of merely 4.4 mass public shooting events a year, while a study by the University of Alabama’s Adam Lankford showed that, over a 46-year time span, only 1.95 such shootings had occurred per year. Natural News analyzed data from Everytown for Gun Safety, an anti-Second Amendment group headed by Michael Bloomberg, and found that the Umpqua College shooting was the first, and so far only, mass school shooting this year. Each of these shootings is a without doubt a tragedy, but what would be an undoubtedly greater tragedy is if we allowed ourselves as a nation to irrationally succumb to propaganda that exploits emotional fervor and further relinquish our means for self-defense. Americans must understand that, while the threat is present, it is clearly not as prevalent as the liberal media is painting it out to be. Just as the spoon is not held entirely accountable for the epidemic of obesity, we must not hold American gun owners solely responsible for these admittedly RARE shootings.

Sources:

Breitbart.com

TheGuardian.com

WashingtonPost.com

ShootingTracker.com

FAS.org^[PDF]

NaturalNews.com